Brought to the comic community’s attention by Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool, Westboro Baptist Church has a new target in its sights: San Diego Comic-Con. The Westboro Baptist Church has gained considerable notoriety over the past few years for picketing nearly anywhere they can think of, from soldiers’ funerals to vacuum stores. For example: today they are currently picketing the Texas Holocaust museum “to remind the Jews that the Lord their God caused the Holocaust.” These are unsavory characters, to say the very least. So why on earth would they picket a comic convention? Let’s check the notes on their schedule to find out:
Are you kidding?! If these people would spend even some of the energy that they spend on these comic books, reading the Bible, well no high hopes here. They have turned comic book characters into idols, and worship them they do! Isaiah 2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: 9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. It is time to put away the silly vanities and turn to God like you mean it. The destruction of this nation is imminent – so start calling on Batman and Superman now, see if they can pull you from the mess that you have created with all your silly idolatry.
Well, at least that’s not quite as unsavory as some things that they have done, but I’m sure most would agree that their reasons are silly.
